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"  When they first spotted a circa-1969 ranch house available in Portland&amp;#039;s West Hills, Bruce Carey and Joe Rogers had only recently moved into a Pearl District condo with a postcard city view and an easy walk to their four restaurants. But with an infant son arriving, the partners needed more space -- and they didn&amp;#039;t want to spend time on long commutes from the suburbs or countryside. Enter the Goat Ranch, the couple&amp;#039;s four-bedroom, 4,000-square-foot house on a pastoral three-acre property, with accompanying goats and chickens, only a few minutes&amp;#039; drive from downtown. Some of its aspects seemed dated, from arched windows to aggregate stone flooring. But with Carey doubling as interior designer, the pair embraced the chance to set up a home again -- this time for three (four if you include their Hungarian pointer, Sugar). &amp;quot;The late &amp;#039;60s were such a great time for design,&amp;quot; says Carey. &amp;quot;The house reminded me of where I grew up in Salem, which was a little more Brady Bunch but about the same vintage of ranch, with the reaching eaves and the muscularity of that vaulted ceiling.&amp;quot; The owners happily retained the original hemlock paneling, but gave it a darker stain for an elegant appearance that&amp;#039;s more old-school men&amp;#039;s club than knotty cabin. An open floor plan with expansive glass admits ample but atmospheric natural light, enlivening a variety of natural textures and materials, from mohair-velvet chairs to a tree stump used as a coffee table. Over several years, Carey has become Portland&amp;#039;s top restaurateur, with establishments like Bluehour in the Brad Cloepfil-designed headquarters of top advertising agency Wieden + Kennedy; Saucebox, which Rogers oversees; and 23 Hoyt, their latest co-venture. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve always told Bruce that the food tastes better to me when he&amp;#039;s there,&amp;quot; says local painter Storm Tharp, part of a small but regular group of friends who visit the Goat Ranch. &amp;quot;It just always feels special, and that&amp;#039;s how he hosts at home too. There&amp;#039;s an old-fashioned quality to the way he believes the home is a place to be creative.&amp;quot; The kitchen was the most extensive renovation, expanded into a wraparound space with the removal of a back hallway. In this portion of the house, Carey used a lighter color palette: white Italian ceramic tile floors and simple wood cabinetry from IKEA (dressed in new hardware) to provide contrast with the moodier feel of the dark paneling. The same cabinetry carries into the dining room, where a room-long &amp;quot;buffet&amp;quot; is both practical and attractive. Its granite top holds mirrored lamps bought on eBay, a Jonathan Adler ceramic horse and a photo of Sugar. The foyer, dining room and living area of the house make one large open space, and light spreads throughout. Sheer white drapes covering sliding-glass patio doors actually seem to brighten the room when closed. &amp;quot;Bruce and Joe have created a wonderful family place,&amp;quot; their friend Tharp says, &amp;quot;but it feels like a lot of cocktail parties happened there back in the &amp;#039;70s. It would have been a flirtatious little place, perfect for a New Year&amp;#039;s Eve party.&amp;quot; Both the master bedroom and its adjacent study highlight the homeowners&amp;#039; shared love of Danish modern furniture. &amp;quot;You sense the wood\u00ADcraft,&amp;quot; Carey says. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s modern, but it&amp;#039;s not mechanical.&amp;quot; The master bedroom of the original plan was accessible through a doorway beside the main entrance of the house. Carey rerouted the master suite access through the adjacent study and up two small stairs (the whole house slopes downward from north to south -- hence also the sunken living room). This put added focus on the bookshelf-lined study, Carey&amp;#039;s favorite room in the house. It has &amp;quot;the full vault height, with high, soaring ceilings,&amp;quot; he explains. &amp;quot;That creates drama in an intimate room.&amp;quot; Moving the entry to the master suite gave Carey enough room to create a walk-in closet and a resort-style bathroom. He enclosed the toilet in its own mini-room and created an open shower by removing the wall that once separated it from the sink. New sconces, a wraparound mirror and a buttery-toned Crema Marfil countertop give the bathroom an entirely different feel from the rest of the house. &amp;quot;I made it more private,&amp;quot; Carey says, &amp;quot;so you can walk from the shower to the sink to the closet and not have to be thinking about who&amp;#039;s at the front door. &amp;quot;My friends tease me about it,&amp;quot; Carey adds, &amp;quot;but all this work is not about my love of remodeling. It&amp;#039;s about the best way to make a house that accommodates family and friends.&amp;quot; What the Pros Know The original house had a midcentury provenance but a somewhat kitschy neo-Spanish style that homeowner Bruce Carey wanted to soften yet maintain -- which made the renovation process an exercise in balancing the vintage with the modern. Carey squared off old-fashioned arched windows, although he retained the lodgelike wood paneling on the walls and ceiling. &amp;quot;My biggest challenge,&amp;quot; he says, &amp;quot;was the way the paneling absorbed light, but I love the wheat-brown color that comes out in the hemlock.&amp;quot; To play against the heavily wooded interior, Carey used IKEA cabinets in a pale eggshell white in the kitchen, dining room and master bathroom and kept a large skylight between the kitchen and the family room. Furnishings throughout, which echo the light/dark theme, run the gamut from the anonymous to the iconic, the antique to the contemporary, eBay to Eames, giving the whole a timelessness that doesn&amp;#039;t apologize for the home&amp;#039;s specific architectural identity. Click here to see the resources. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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